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Law-enforcement agencies lauded the success of a national operation that resulted in child pornography charges against 150 people across the country and are vowing to do it again — but next time, police will have to do things differently. A ruling last week by the Supreme Court of Canada means police must now get a warrant to obtain subscriber information from Internet service providers.

Two Calgary men are among more than 150 people arrested in a Canada-wide child porn sting co-ordinated by the RCMP. Project Snapshot III was launched in February 2014 and targeted high-risk offedners, involving 40 police agencies across Canada.

Lethbridge Regional Police and Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams have laid 19 new charges against a 37-year-old man already facing numerous counts of sexual assault and exploitation. The Lethbridge man was first charged in January with the sexual assault of two boys. At the time, he was charged with two counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference, sexual exploitation and one count of invitation to sexual touching.

It’s barely a drop in the tide of child pornography trafficked online in Alberta every day, but investigators hope a recent bust that resulted in charges against 10 men sends a message that pedophiles can’t hide in the Internet’s darkest corners. “The message is that we are watching. There is no anonymity for you. We are watching and we will target you for criminal investigation,” said Staff Sgt. John Guigon of Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, which conducted the four-month probe that resulted in the arrests and the seizure of thousands of child pornography images and videos.

Police have charged a Calgary man with several sex-related offences, alleging he repeatedly molested an underage girl he met online. Investigators with Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams said someone using the online name “Sam Pat” contacted a 14-year-old Calgary girl via Facebook last August.

Two Calgarians and a university math professor from Edmonton are among 341 people charged following a three-year global child exploitation investigation led by Toronto police. Jonathon Robert Gerbrandt, 34, and Kevin Michael Owad, 39, both of Calgary, were each charged with possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography. Owad was also charged with making child pornography.

A man convicted on child pornography charges has lost a fight against the Parole Board of Canada’s decision denying him parole. Daniel James Clayton appealed the board’s decision saying it was error-filled and “unreasonable” to rule he poses an undue risk if released into the community.

The Crown officially stayed child pornography charges on Friday against Pablo Rodrigo Russell, to complete a plea bargain last week in which he also had a first-degree murder charge downgraded to manslaughter. Prosecutor Jenny Rees told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Earl Wilson of the decision on the porn charges.

Pablo Rodrigo Russell, faced with a four-week trial on first-degree murder and possible life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years in the shooting death of his roommate, will serve only three more years in prison before he’s a free man. Russell, 37, accepted a plea bargain on Monday on the opening day of trial to plead guilty to manslaughter and receive an eight-year sentence, less double credit for 2 1/2 years already spent in custody since his arrest in connection with the death of Serafino Virgilio, 57, on Jan. 16, 2010.

Residents in southeast Calgary are angry after learning a registered sex offender facing new abuse allegations involving a seven-year-old girl is living across the street from two elementary schools and a children’s daycare.

A retired Calgary police officer convicted of child porn charges is facing new sex allegations involving a seven-year-old girl. The molestation incidents are alleged to have happened in the early 1990s after the man met the girl’s mother, police say.

A former youth church counsellor who was sentenced to 14 years in prison and declared a long-term offender for abusing six boys and collecting child pornography is blaming his lawyers for his predicament. In his notice of appeal filed recently with the Alberta Court of Appeal, Roderick Kyle Janssen essentially says he was coerced into pleading guilty to 18 charges in November 2011.

Calling him an untreated pedophile and a sex offender who is a substantial risk to reoffend, a judge sentenced former church youth counsellor Roderick Kyle Janssen to 14 years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing six young boys. Provincial court Judge Catherine Skene also declared Janssen a long-term offender and placed him under community supervision for another 10 years after his release. Janssen was given double credit for time already spent in custody, leaving him with nine years and eight months to serve in prison.

A week after authorities launched an awareness campaign about sexting, investigators have charged a 15-year-old boy over sexual and threatening text messages sent to an ex-girlfriend. The boy has been charged with making child pornography and criminal harassment after allegedly using a parent’s iPod to send the written messages.

A Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School teacher has been charged with possessing and accessing child pornography. Police say they launched an investigation in February after getting information from the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre.

Former church youth volunteer and counsellor Roderick Kyle Janssen should go to prison for 14 to 15 years for the sexual abuse of six boys, as well as making and distributing tens of thousands of images and videos of child pornography on the Internet, Crown prosecutor Nadine Nesbitt argued Thursday. Nesbitt also is seeking to have Janssen, 36, declared a long-term offender and subject to 10 years of community supervision after he is released.

Police in Lethbridge say a man who is getting out of jail on a child pornography conviction poses a high risk to children. The Lethbridge Regional Police Service issued a warning Friday morning about Benjamin Ross Burrows, 28, because he is being released from Bowden after serving a two-year sentence of possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and failing to comply with a recognizance.

One of three people facing first-degree murder charges in the slaying of Ryan Lane last year will no longer be facing additional child pornography charges. Wilhelm Klassen Rempel, 38, on Monday agreed to a peace bond that will see charges withdrawn of accessing and possessing the illicit material on his home computer on April 5, 2012, likely later this month.

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